She's Leaving Home...

This is perhaps the best loved article by me. Please help me 2 find out why I like it.
It has appeared in the Times of India. Forgive me I dont remember the date.
Author: Rajiv Desai


On a friday morning at breakfast, she had a shy smile on her face. Her mother told the father,"She has something to say". The father who really is averse to such disturbances as he reads the morning newspaper  looked up  distractedly. As he looked up, he saw his wife was hugging their daughter and sobbing. It was really too early in the morning  for drama, the father thought to himself. Being somewht cantankerous, the father grunted, not quite understanding her comment. Then the penny dropped. His daughter had just announced her engagement.He put down his paper and looked at her.In the event he was struck by his daughter's demure posture. She was plain-speaking person-always told it like it was loudly: "Dad, deal with it. I'm never leaving home". She had told him, time and again. Daughters are special, they love their mother and if the father think its okay its equivalent to winning a Nobel Prize.


On that Friday morning, she was leaving home. Confused between happiness and sadness when she announced her intention,the father looked at his daughter in a new light: a beautiful young woman who was about to set up a new life.Through the day though he looked at the collection of photos on the computer. The pictures captured a gorgeous little girl: holding her infant sister,taking her on a ride on her tricycle; twirling in ballet class with her little pink tutu; going off by herself to the Bon Jovi concert in Bombay; cavorting on the beaches in Goa; posing in front of her new car when she was at college in America; dancing ever so well at her best friend's wedding. And on that Friday morning a shy smile. A cloud hovered over her father's happiness: for all the years she'd lived in America and in England, he knew she'd always come back. On that Friday, however,something awoke in him that he had always denied for many years: she's leaving home.

Life aka Drama: F(t) - Part 3

...contd from Part 2...


On a rather funny scale, there is only one thing that can help us continue our lives and fathom down the odds against those odds which we do not want them to happen: smile. Exactly! Laugh at it and it will pass away. As the philosophers have been suggesting throughout history of mankind; but tht is not wht it takes to perpetuate life. Perhaps the astonishing(yet well-known) truth that we have to impertutably accept is that, we all are the actors in the eternal Cosmic Drama called Life and are just fulfilling our responsibilities by playing the roles assigned to us by the cosmic director, " Natana-sutra-dhaari "(in sanskrit meaning The director of the cosmic drama)!*


As Henry Cornelius Agrippa, in his highly famed and controversial  De Occulta Philosophia (a collection of 3 books on occult philosophy) rightly says so! Well the discussion in the above paragraph with Sanskrit edition, sounds Indianized and is indeed one! Though not Indianized in the strict sense, i.e., it is the Indian version of the familiar "God is the director of cosmic drama" issue! 


Fine. I'm no more diving into the depths of occult philosophy as might shun away many of potential readers 
groping their experienced eyes for some interesting stuff.Now getting back to the modern take on life and drama, there are, times when we get too scared of performing our roles on the stage and other times, when we get too afraid of the director whom we find frightening! As Norah Burke rightly says, God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh! And this cosmic drama, as we see, which unfolds itself before us every second, fortunately or unfortunately, is a function of time, i.e., we are born at a particular time and do our role in the time interval dt between the limits t1 and t2).


So, from equation 1 and from the law of symmetry and equality, 

Drama (D) = ∫ ƒ (t)dt ----- Equation 2

SO, FROM EQUATIONS 1& 2, LIFE AND THE DRAMA WE PLAY ARE ALL INTERDEPENDENT FUNCTIONS OF TIME!

I'd like to pause and mention one point here: I'm not painting a macabre or a dreary picture of reality depriving the reader of their smile on the face, or perhaps trying to baffle them. But as it turns out from Equation 2, the surprising result elucidating the relation between life and drama,perhaps doesn't seem as surprising as it is to some.


As careful scrutinies of Leonardo da Vinci's highly famed(rather controvertially) paintings like The Madonna of Rocks, the Monalisa, under computerized analysis have shown the flaws and invisible aspects of his art; so the careful study of this grim picture...hey, just wait! Why on earth have I been calling it a grim picture...a grim picture? Is it because of the fact that the topics as such Life...time...spirituality...focus...etc are all concepts intended for the oldies? Then, let us change the idea from the very fact that at 1 point of time or other in life we are bound to face some lows wherein this comes in to play leading to averse mental situations, trauma and breakdown( :D better I'll stop here!). So its handy to realize that this also has a bright facet and depends on the victim's persepective!

Life: F(t) Part-2 :)

At times there are some situations in life, where we tend to smile inevitably as the situation demands so. Here are a few funny laws, named NEWTONS LAWS, which Newton forgot to state. Though as simple as they seem, their subtlety lies in the variant mind of the readers. 

LAW OF QUEUE : If you change queues, the one you have left will start to move faster than the one you are in now.

LAW OF MECHANICAL REPAIR: After your hands become coated with grease, your nose will begin to itch.

LAW OF THE WORKSHOP: Any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner.

LAW OF THE ALIBI: If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

BATH THEOREM: When the body is immersed in water, the telephone rings.

LAW OF ENCOUNTERS: The probability of meeting someone you know increases when you are with someone you don't want to be seen with.

LAW OF THE RESULT: When you try to prove to someone that a machine won't work, it will! (for sure I say :D)

LAW OF BIOMECHANICS: The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the reach.

THEATRE RULE: People with the seats at the furthest from the aisle arrive last.

LAW OF COFFEE: As soon as you sit down for a cup of hot coffee, your boss will ask you to do something which will last until the coffee is cold.

A keen observer is bound to input them into his mind in an outlook which most of us might seem to overlook or pehaps consider insignificant and trash. But, to add spice to it, they all are a part of intricately woven twists and turns of a huge labyrinth of wanted or unwanted, necessary or unnecessary, intriguing tale of tempest, to which life stands tall and eyeing sagaciously with a grin: Drama. :P

PS: Do not forget the equation 1, of my previous post. We are to use it not only in the next post, but bound to it through out the life! ;)

Life: F(t)

“What is it, that u require the most?”, asked a friend of mine once solemnly. Perhaps the question being inadvertent and spiritualistic, for a serious response than a materialistic one. We, my 3 usually close chums and I now looked with a raised eyebrow compartmentalizing his question and groping the mind for an answer. We (excluding the host, 3) burst exuberantly with different answers; one, a lavish home in the next street which might cost a million dollar;another, a sports bike and I, a huge refractor telescope(which would, in fact cost a fortune) and chuckled to myself. Now as we looked at the host, he eyed us with an expressionless countenance and then brooding like a sage, said,”Dont any of u feel the need for TIME?”

The realization then slowly dawned on us as I started to consider his view; Time was indeed the need of the hour!. Recollecting in a flash Einstein’s Space-Time fabric and the importance of time in his relativistic theory in specific and Physics in general, I also recognized that its utmost importance also extends to one’s Life. Perhaps every incident,

1.takes place at a certain time(t1)

2.till a particular time(t2)

3.in a time duration (Δt=t2 – t1; let us say dt)

So, right from the birth, our clock starts ticking and modestly ticks away whenever u look it, callously, without a pinch of sympathy duly performing its duty assigned to it by the forces of nature. I’m not lecturing the importance of time or its judicious usage or …, but presenting a rational perspective accompanied with a scientific tinge. Duly, it tops the matters of paramount concern in our day-to-day life and life on whole! From this, we can say that,

Life (L)= Factor or function (ƒ) of time (t)

=> L = ƒ (t)

Since we are concerned about the duration of the incident that happens in our life, dt, i.e., (t2 – t1), re-writing above equation as,

=> L = ∫ ƒ (t)dt —— Equation 1

The above equation showcases the intricate* relation between Life and time in a simple fashion thus demonstrating that summing up each and every incident that happens through one’s life, i.e., to integrate all the scenes in life, duly with respect to (w.r.t) time! The one final frontier, the Big Brother of all occassions, TIME!

(* – Many out there, might not accept the intricate realtion and I respect their views!)